I have bought a station wagon

Watching this with interest, because the "kit form 110" I recently picked up is a 7 seater station wagon with a sailsbury rear axle and the load leveller for the rear A arm. And it was in a million pieces so I have it all to do, and to make it worse, no fasteners or anything marked up and I've never worked on a 110 before.
Looking at the shot of your v5c its the same model and type as yours albeit a '89, so that will make it easier to get it registered as a genuine 7 seater during the import process later on.
I've done a sort of mini dry build to see if there's anything major missing and been watching and getting the odd part I know it'll need but don't plan to start the assembly or repair proper for a while as I have two other projects in the queue ahead of it and life will get in the way and derail timely progress on them as usual.
But if you can take lots of pictures, that would be appreciated!

MrF said:

Watching this with interest, because the "kit form 110" I recently picked up is a 7 seater station wagon with a sailsbury rear axle and the load leveller for the rear A arm. And it was in a million pieces so I have it all to do, and to make it worse, no fasteners or anything marked up and I've never worked on a 110 before.
Looking at the shot of your v5c its the same model and type as yours albeit a '89, so that will make it easier to get it registered as a genuine 7 seater during the import process later on.
I've done a sort of mini dry build to see if there's anything major missing and been watching and getting the odd part I know it'll need but don't plan to start the assembly or repair proper for a while as I have two other projects in the queue ahead of it and life will get in the way and derail timely progress on them as usual.
But if you can take lots of pictures, that would be appreciated!

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I plan on removing the load leveler (boge unit I believe) I do not have one on my hardtop and am happy with the setup of that so am just going to replicate it. It needs new suspension anyway so will just fit the appropriate rated springs. I am not sure how easy the self leveling units are to rebuild but I believe not very!

There will be lots of pictures and I will keep this thread updated but it will be a slow process. And once I have swapped the station wagon body onto my hardtop (red one int he picture) it will then be an even slower process to rebuild this vehicle in its entirety.

If it helps at all with yours about 12months ago I finish rebuilding the hardtop after a fire and there are lots of pictures and description in the rebuild thread: LINK. But it was not standard and has a later 200tdi engine and later 300tdi wiring looms throughout which I plan on replicating on the station wagon so the build on that will not be completely standard either. But by making both vehicles the same other than the rear body it makes spares and working on them easier for me as they are both identical.

Thanks, I went through that thread, insurance companies are ****** and good to see you didn't let them weasel out and crush your car... I used to work in a shop that did insurance work 25 years ago, and my opinion of them hasn't got any better with time.

This 110 was devoid of engine/transmission but as per other threads, a LT77, and a 200tdi have been procured in the past fortnight, which gives almost a mirror of the setup that I'm doing on my old faithful '89 90 so I have a common drivetrain platform between the 2 also apart from the differences because one is a 90 and the other a 110.
I'll ask the previous owner about the spring rates to see if he planned doing similar and eliminating the load leveller setup, because he mentioned putting a spring & damper kit on it years ago when he first got it as a unfinished project and had plans to get it on the road alongside his other 110.

dag019 said:

May be a little premature as it needs a lot of rebuilding first but couldn’t turn these tree slider steps down when they came up for sale (thank you @bluehaze). Although they will certainly need to come off again fitting them is the easiest way to store them so they are not cluttering up the garage.

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Another update as Progress is slow as expected with a baby but I have just spent my work bonus on some horribly expensive shiny parts from yrm that I immediately made less shiny with a good Twash ready for primer.





Now before I primer these is there anywhere that needs to be seam sealed? I know the bulkhead has lots of places and was suitable sealed before painting when I fitted that but I am much less familiar with the station wagon door pillar setup. There looks to be a couple of places where there are joints which a line of tiger seal will do no harm to but is there anywhere that absolutely needs to be sealed?

another update on this, i have finished rebuilding the front brake callipers (replacements) to fit to this. you might be wondering why i am rebuilding the brakes with everything else that is wrong with it but the answer to that is that the current brakes are seized meaning it doesn't roll so cannot be pushed or towed easily from the position it is in. there is not much point having a vehicle with wheels on if it cannot be moved!

These have been painted (do not think much of the special calliper paint, seems a bit soft, but time will tell), cleaned, had new seals and stainless pistons, and had new brake pads fitted. These might be performance pads but they came in a job lot of parts I acquired so were free to fit for now and my preference is genuine pads anyway. the eagle eyed amongst you may have spotted the brand new radius arm washer on the bench, I still stand by this is the best tool available to fit the seal retaining rings along with a swift sharp tap with a heavy hammer. I only bent two so i am considering that a win!





Now I have done these I will do the same with the rears (diesel jim disc conversion same as my hardtop), and along with the new to me master cylinders should mean that the brakes work and the vehicle rolls when I am done.